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PANEL: Exploring the Improvisative: Two Views

Tracy McMullen, Benjamin Piekut

Published: 2007-09-07

VIDEO: Two panelists present on the notion of the improvisative and its significance in relation to performativity. Benjamin Piekut: "From the Performative to the Improvisative: Reconsidering Butler.” Tracy McMullen: "Playing the Performative: Replay and Improvisativity.” TEXT: An abstract and biography for each panelist.

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Listening itself, an improvisative act engaged in by everyone, announces a practice of active engagement with the world, where we sift, interpret, store and forget, in parallel with action and fundamentally articulated with it ("Mobilitas Animi" 113).

– George E. Lewis